The Story of English
by McCrum, Robert, with William Cran and Robert MacNeil
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0563202475
- ISBN 13
- 9780563202479
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London: Faber and Faber, and BBC Publications, 1986) 0563202475. 4to; original blue boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 384, incl. index; liberally illustrated with colour maps, and artwork and photographs, in colour and monochrome. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and edgeworn; light bump to bottom fore-corners of boards; earlier owner's discreet book label to front free endpaper; trace of foxing to edges. Very good condition. "This book is the first to attempt the whole story of English in a popular way, and to make it accessible to the general reader. It accompanies the nine-part BBC television series and is based on extensive travel and research. Fully illustrated, it is a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English in all its variety - from Cockney, Scouse and Scots, to Geordie, Gullah, Strine, Singlish and Franglais. It is a story that will make us all wonder and think again about the words we use, and the way we say them - fascinating reading for the English-speaking world." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10865
- Title
- The Story of English
- Author
- McCrum, Robert, with William Cran and Robert MacNeil
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0563202475
- ISBN 13
- 9780563202479
- Publisher
- (London: Faber and Faber, and BBC Publications, 1986) 0563202475
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1986
- Keywords
- English language. British Empire. Modern English. Dialects History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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